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Important Things on Trump’s Mind

Speaking about being on the cover of Time Magazine to a group of CIA employees:

“I have been on their cover, like, 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine. Like, if Tom Brady is on the cover, it’s one time, because he won the Super Bowl or something, right? I’ve been on it for 15 times this year. I don’t think that’s a record…that can ever be broken. Do you agree with that? What do you think?”

— Donald Trump

[Fact: The all-time record is held by Richard Nixon, who appeared on 55 Time covers]

This is such a trivial factoid, it’s not even worth mentioning, but the fact that the president thought it was important to point this out in a fence-mending speech to the CIA is, to me, alarming.